[WikiEN-l] BLP - a case study

[jayjg]

The reason living people should be treated with care and respect is
because things that are published about them can have real-life
implications for them. A corpse is unlikely (for example) to have a
job offer rescinded because some H.R. person googled their name and
found something negative about them in a Wikipedia bio.

Jay.

On 3/28/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> No. Dead people should be treated with equal respect to living ones.
>
> On 3/28/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > on 3/28/07 10:27 AM, Andrew Gray at shimgray at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Basically, we have an issue with the biographies of living people
> > > where - by the simple act of repeating published and verifiable
> > > information - we can give a vastly misleading impression about them;
> > > we report their drunk-driving conviction at 19 in the same tone and
> > > length as we report their Nobel prize. Oh, it's verifiable and true...
> > > but should we be publishing it? Editorial common sense says, perhaps,
> > > no.
> >
> > My own thinking begins with why is the person being included in the
> > encyclopedia in the first place? Was it because of their work in a
> > particular field? - Contributions to the world at large? - Notorious acts
> > of
> > criminal behavior? What? Let the substance of the Article be guided by
> > these
> > criteria.
> >
> > And, if other publications wish to publish personal information, so be it;
> > that is their purpose for being - let WP stay with it's own.
> >
> > Another thought: After this person dies would it then be fair game to add
> > all of the personal stuff? And, would it now be OK to do so? And if so,
> > why
> > so?
> >
> > Marc Riddell
> >
> >
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